Ismaïla Sarr
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Personal information
Full name
Ismaïla Sarr
Date of birth
25 February 1998
Place of birth
Saint-Louis, Senegal
Height
1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position
Winger

Club information
Current team
Rennes
Number
N/A

Senegal
Stade Rennais  Season 2017-
Article

Youth career

Génération Foot
2009-2016

Senior career

Metz
2016-2017
31x apps / 5x goals

Stade Rennais
2017-
0x apps / 0x goal

National team

Senegal U23
2015
3x apps / 0x goal

Senegal
2016-
6x apps / 1x goal

(Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 May 2017 - National team caps and goals correct as of 23 January 2017)

Ismaïla Sarr is a Senegalese football player who plays as Winger for French club Stade Rennais in Ligue 1[1] and Senegal national football team.

Club career

Early career

Born in Saint-Louis, Senegal, Sarr started his football career with Senegalese football club Génération Foot.

FC Metz
On 13 July 2016, Sarr signed his first professional contract with FC Metz for five years.

He made his league debut on 13 August 2016 against Lille OSC at Stade Saint-Symphorien, the FC Metz's home ground, which Metz won by 3:2. In this match, he played 20 minutes, after he was substituted for Florent Mollet.

On 11 September 2016, Sarr played a league game against FC Nantes as a starter and he played a whole game and he was shown a yellow card.

Stade Rennais
On 26 July 2017, Sarr signed a 4-year contract with Ligue 1 side Rennes, for a fee of around €17 million.

International career
Sarr has represented his country at Senegal national under-23 football team. In 2015, he played in 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations.

At that time, his age was only 17. 

He contributed that Senegal finished the competition in a fourth place, playing 3 games.

He played for the first time with Senegal national football team for a match against Namibia in September 2016 in Dakar (2:0) for 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification, for which Senegal is already qualified. 

As a symbol, it comes into play in the 67th minute in place of the former resident of Génération Foot and Metz, Sadio Mané.

On 8 January 2017, Sarr scored his first international goal in a friendly match against Libya national football team in Stade Municipal de Kintélé, Brazzaville.